browser display

Although you didn't ask a question, I guess you want to know how to achieve this. There are at least 2 ways:

a) translate XML via XSL on the fly and make the transformer push the result to the client stream

b) add a stylesheet reference into the XML file and transfer it to the client (if it's capable of processing XSLT, such as Firefox or IE 5/5.5 or later)

quittea at 2007-7-9 5:50:44 >

hello mlk

thanks ur reply.we want to write a java program for creating html document using xml and xsl.We already have xml and xsl.We wish to display the resulting html in a browser when we execute the program..

We dont want to store the html document in a disk...hope u get our problem...

thanks in advance....

rajiv

rajiv_kinga at 2007-7-9 5:50:44 >

> Otherwise, you either

> have to create a temporary file or initialize a HTTP

> server within your application (see Jetty for

> example).

Or use a pure Java web browser that can read from a stream, and have the browser embedded as part of the application that does the conversion.

But why do you not want to create a temp file?

mlka at 2007-7-9 5:50:44 >

As a summary, you have the following ways:

a) Do XSLT processing as currently, try to find a fully-featured, Java-enabled HTML display component and either divert XSLT output to this component or divert it into a character buffer and hand the result over to the component.

b) Do XSLT processing as currently, diverting the output into a temporary file, then open this file using the default browser. You said you wouldn't like temporary files, though you didn't give a reason why.

c) Do XSLT processing as currently, embed a freely available HTTP listener such as Jetty into your application and make the default browser open a localhost URL that leads to your XSLT processing module. Divert the processing output into the response stream of this HTTP listener (e.g. by creating a Servlet doing the XSLT transformation).

d) Stop processing XSLT in Java, but add a reference to the XSLT file into the XML file and open this XML file using the default browser. Modern browsers are capable of transforming XSLT for themselves.

quittea at 2007-7-9 5:50:44 >